acwan93

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by acwan93 11d ago
I read somewhere that Pittsburgh airport was trying to do something like this cause the stores gateside were not available anywhere else. In any case, like with airport lounges, it seems like “everyone” has some form of credit card that giv
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by acwan93 18d ago
You’re correct that LA is usually hot (95F+) this time of year, but the humidity is what’s abnormal. The dew point in Disneyland was higher than in Disney World yesterday due to a tropical storm that dissipated west of the LA basin. More tr
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by acwan93 3mo ago
That and going to Philz or Tartine afterwards. At one point both those places were on every Apple marketing copy.
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by acwan93 4mo ago
Ben Stiller right? That’s Meet the Parents.
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by acwan93 2y ago
If anything, coming across as “a little odd” can be a sign I’m actually talking to a human.
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by acwan93 2y ago
Your perception of the reality is spot on. For this round I was hiring for entry level technical support and we had limited time to properly vet candidates. Unfortunately what we end up doing is have to make some assumptions. If something s
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by acwan93 2y ago
I don’t know the answer, but I’d like to share that I asked a simple question about scheduling a phone interview to learn more about a candidate. The candidate’s first response? “Memory updated”. That led to some laughs internally and then
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by acwan93 2y ago
Dear god this is pretty much what I went through when I started taking over a company with a 35-40 year old codebase. Files spread everywhere, no consensus, and supporting customizations for thousands of customers who we didn’t know if they
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by acwan93 2y ago
Relatively. The amount of diacritics on Vietnamese surpasses European languages so text rendering becomes a challenge if a naive developer doesn't test with Vietnamese.
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by acwan93 2y ago
> I used to say this about seeing the Grand Canyon for the first time after seen pictures/video of it, but the eclipse was at least 10x that experience. I said the same thing about seeing Tunnel View in Yosemite for the first time.
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by acwan93 3y ago
>Most advice you find online is useless. "Mommy-bloggers" have SEO spammed the internet with waste. It's either some form of extreme child micromanagement, or rituals designed for people with saint-like patience or time on
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by acwan93 3y ago
As a crossing guard at my local high school told me: "Welcome to the Brotherhood!" Every baby is different and you should take all advice with a huge grain of salt, including the ones listed here. Don't be afraid to ask for h
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by acwan93 3y ago
I had to look up that last bit. There was a system I was working with whose developers told me “Assume Eastern Time” all the time (I'm on PDT/PST)…until the daylight saving time change in March. I missed some data from their end a
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by acwan93 3y ago
It’s also entirely possible if permanent DST passes and gets repealed (again) we’ll be back to where we are now 60 years later.
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by acwan93 3y ago
It's cheaper to ship something from Shanghai to Los Angeles than from Bogotá to Cartagena, or so my classes taught me when I took a class on Colombia's economy.
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by acwan93 3y ago
The Catholic church has tried: >On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they bloc
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by acwan93 3y ago
Flighty leverages the Apple Push Notification Service (APN), which the iMessage infrastructure also uses. It's why you can receive notifications in flight but can't act on them.
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by acwan93 3y ago
>As population centers shift and housing gets built, people move in next to noisy airports and then say to themselves "Holy shit, I moved next to an airport and it's loud. How could I have known? Surely this is the airport&#x27
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by acwan93 3y ago
You need one when building a Hemnes or Billy. The back of the nightstand/bookcase is a sheet that you slide in and hammer in with nails.
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by acwan93 3y ago
United and Delta tried during the pandemic to improve social distancing [1] but switched back once travel came back, and I'm guessing this kind of boarding ended up being slower. It turns out the Southwest way (random boarding) was sti
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by acwan93 4y ago
Even PCs that are nearly 10 years old can still keep going when you add more RAM and use an SSD. We’ve done that for work computers for non-devs and it’s been going great.
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by acwan93 4y ago
Berkeley EECS alum: is it true that CS61A (the intro course) is now moved to Haas Pavilion (the basketball court) and there are 45 TAs? I remember the professor at the time I was there said that CS61A was only impacted during the dot-com bu
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by acwan93 4y ago
Slight tangent on this and something I've always wondered: if something as basic yet extremely crucial as scheduling software is outdated (SWA might very well be on a mainframe or transmitting CSV files in an FTP server and that server
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by acwan93 4y ago
Cryptic codes and abbreviations are surprisingly prevalent in more places than you'd expect. Anyone working with EDI documents in medical or retailers has first hand knowledge.
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by acwan93 4y ago
Feel like there's no real difference now. People today who don't use (or don't want to use) password managers keep their passwords/credentials in the Notes app or some combination of "most used symbols and numbers&q
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by acwan93 4y ago
What I don't understand is why this is simply normalized. My friends in the Bay Area refuse to leave anything in the trunk of their own car, even if no one has seen them put it in the trunk in the first place. How is this okay?
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by acwan93 4y ago
In all seriousness, we've been deploying everything on us-west-2, and it seems to have dodged most of the outages recently. Is there something special about that data center?
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by acwan93 4y ago
It's not just Snap that does it. Instagram and Facebook did the same several years ago when I quit, and I haven't received any nag emails in a long time from them.
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by acwan93 4y ago
Anyone here know if the thunderstorm events in SoCal earlier this week is a result of this?
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by acwan93 4y ago
I really wanted to use Coda (now Nova [1]) from Panic, but I kept coming back to VSCode. VSCode seems to be the path of least resistance. I think I’ll try it again after seeing the news about Atom. [1]: https://nova.app/

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